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In recent years, the circular economy has become a guiding principle in industrial and environmental policies. But how good is it really? The definition of a circular economy is unclear and lacks substance, according to a team of researchers from Lund University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. It risks becoming counterproductive, unless we stop referring to it as a panacea for all

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/circular-economy-not-panacea-many-had-hoped - 2025-12-22

Implementing nature-based solutions requires better management and funding with clear political priorities. This is the conclusion of a new study by the Nordic Council of Ministers, in which researchers from Lund University participated. Nature-based solutions to climate change and the loss of biodiversity are increasingly highlighted, most recently during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27)

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nature-based-solutions-have-great-potential-nordic-countries - 2025-12-22

Christina WindmarkHow would you describe the programme to a potential student?"Production and material engineering are the backbones of the economy in our modern society. The Master’s programme in Production and Materials Engineering provides students with a solid competence in both areas. Through the programme, the students acquire knowledge, skills, and a vision in the area of sustainable produc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-taprr/interview-programme-director-christina - 2025-12-22

Lund University (Sweden), Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Porto University (Portugal), Szeged University (Hungary) and Université Paris-Saclay have decided to join forces to create a pilot project of a European University, an “Alliance for Global Health,” committed to higher education in global health and well-being challenges at the heart of European values. Better living togeth

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-and-four-other-major-research-universities-create-european-alliance-global-health - 2025-12-21

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/root-vegetable-could-have-replaced-halloween-pumpkins - 2025-12-22

Seeing a lot of talk about the importance of gut health? These are the latest findings, including those on food and supplements Weighing in at nearly two kilos, our gut bacteria seem to play an even bigger role than was previously thought. These bacteria can influence our mood and act as a communication centre. Gut microbiota researchers Åsa Håkansson and Frida Fåk Hållenius at Lund University in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/key-takeaways-latest-research-gut-bacteria - 2025-12-22

Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the Iron Age in the Nordic region. The findings made in Uppåkra in southern Sweden indicate a large-scale production of beer, possibly for feasting and trade. “We found carbonised malt in an area with low-temperature ovens located in a separate part of the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedes-have-been-brewing-beer-iron-age-new-evidence-confirms - 2025-12-21

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-tabit/short-interview-former-programme-director-rajni-hatti-kaul - 2025-12-21

The DRMCCA programme offers students the possibility to take an elective internship-based course of 15 ECTS credits during the third semester. The internship possibility is an important personal and professional experience, useful in future job-seeking activities. Learn more about possible hosts, destinations and internship experiences by clicking on the links below. Internship hosts and destinati

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-takak/drmcca-field-based-internship-course - 2025-12-21

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/frogs-have-unique-ability-see-colour-dark - 2025-12-21

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Three of them come from Lund University. The five-year grant provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthroughs by providing long-term research funding in Sweden. Vladislava Stoyanova: The Borders Within: The Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Euro

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-researchers-lund-university-become-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2019 - 2025-12-21

For over 20 years, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied the common bluetail damselfly. Females occur in three different colour forms – one with a male-like appearance, something that protects them from mating harassment. In a new study, an international research team found that this genetic colour variation that is shared between several species arose through changes in a speci

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scientists-have-solved-damselfly-colour-mystery - 2025-12-22

Film is an effective way to communicate about your research. Lund University Cancer Center, LUCC, made a film about bladder cancer. Mustafa Kadhim, a doctoral student in medical radiation physics at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund, explains how they went about it. Why did you make a film about bladder cancer research?"The bladder cancer researchers wanted to spread information about th

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/they-made-their-own-movie-heres-what-you-should-keep-mind - 2025-12-21

A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that ravens are as clever as chimpanzees, despite having much smaller brains, indicating that rather than the size of the brain, the neuronal density and the structure of the birds’ brains play an important role in terms of their intelligence. “Absolute brain size is not the whole story. We found that corvid birds performed as well as g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-ravens-just-clever-chimps-despite-having-mini-brains - 2025-12-21

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-become-immune-influenza - 2025-12-21

The number of patients with osteoarthritis has increased dramatically since the 1950s. Along with diabetes, the illness is now one of the fastest-growing endemic diseases in the world. Andrea Dell’Isola, an associate professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University in Sweden, investigating the connection between osteoarthritis and metabolic diseases in a new research project. Ar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/we-are-getting-older-and-heavier-osteoarthritis-increasing - 2025-12-22

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that, while removing many of the constraints of traditional manufacturing, imposes some new constraints of its own. Because of this, engineers and designers need to be taught a new set of skills in design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) in order to become competent in designing parts that maximize the benefits offered by AM. Around the world, universit

Communications through text, sound and image are discussed in their mutual relation to economic, cultural, political and social change. Basic concepts and perspectives of Media History are introduced. The course adopts a broad definition of media and the idea that individual forms of media must be understood in relation to each other. The course deals with the main outlines of Western media historCommunications through text, sound and image are discussed in their mutual relation to economic, cultural, political and social change. Basic concepts and perspectives of Media History are introduced. The course adopts a broad definition of media and the idea that individual forms of media must be understood in relation to each other. The course deals with the main outlines of Western media histor

Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, has a tremendous capacity for self-control. Up to now, such impulse control has been primarily associated with larger cognitively advanced animals with far larger brains than the great tit. According to the new results, the great tits’ ability for self-control is almost the same as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/great-tit-birds-have-much-impulse-control-chimpanzees - 2025-12-21

The more times metastasised melanoma has mutated and the patient’s immune system has been activated against the tumour – the better the chances of survival after immunotherapy. This is what emerges from a research collaboration between Lund University in Sweden and Herlev university hospital in Denmark. The findings are now published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Using the body’

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/molecular-profiling-melanoma-tumours-explains-differences-survival-after-t-cell-therapy - 2025-12-21